Example sentences of "up by the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were only half a dozen sergeants in the mess , but the numbers were made up by the civilian engineers who worked on the project . |
| 2 | Within seconds , the sing-song chant had been taken up by the vast majority . |
| 3 | The most satisfactory extrinsic marker is [ 3H ] thymidine which , due to the rapid cell cycle of early post-implantation embryonic cells , is quickly taken up by the vast majority of cells and appears not to be deleterious to development ( 25 ) . |
| 4 | Its activity depended on its being sufficiently similar to be taken up by the chemical processes of the virus but sufficiently different to be useless to the virus and to jam its works . |
| 5 | One possible explanation for this discrepancy might be that Ac-ASA is less well taken up by the colonic mucosa , and there is indirect evidence to suggest that this so . |
| 6 | Another possible reason for this discrepancy may be that Ac-ASA is less well taken up by the colonic mucosa than 5-ASA , resulting in subtherapeutic mucosal concentrations . |
| 7 | Their position is summed up by the Anglican theologian John Knox in his Humanity and Divinity of Christ . |
| 8 | The friendly atmosphere of St Catherines Lodge Hotel has been built up by the present owners over many years . |
| 9 | I am preparing a big adhortatio for everyone who has not yet been utterly suffocated and swallowed up by the present age . " |
| 10 | The joint declaration was based on a 14-page draft document drawn up by the participating countries at a preparatory meeting in Bolivia on Jan. 10 [ see p. 37182 ] . |
| 11 | We want the Government to think carefully and respond positively to our recommendations , because we are anxious that the rate of increase in the Budget from now on should not be jacked up by the powerful lobby of the industry and the influence that it can exert on the Government . |
| 12 | Then , for more than 300 years until the legions left , the Romans ruled Britain , bringing their talent for organisation to the country , building roads which made travel easier , and all the time controlling the province through the administration of Roman law — backed up by the powerful legions of the Roman army . |
| 13 | ‘ Would it be too suspicious-sounding to ask where we 're going ? ’ she enquired huskily , after a few miles had been gobbled up by the powerful car . |
| 14 | The discipline of the points made constant supervision unnecessary , with the sergeant able to strike randomly at any one of sundry crossroads , an arbitrary arrangement whose authority was backed up by the total recall of the Beat Book record . |
| 15 | The academy had become little more than a rubber stamp for huge prestigious projects drawn up by the industrial ministries . |
| 16 | Development of substitutes for CFCs is being stepped up by the Industrial Technology Research Institute and manufacturers . |
| 17 | ‘ I only know that the Meeting Notice was sent out according to a list drawn up by the Prime Minister . ’ |
| 18 | Spain 's Alcatel Sesa SA has taken control of two Polish companies , PZT Telkom , which employs 640 people in Warsaw , and Teletra , which has about 1,300 employees making public telephone exchanges ; Alcatel Sesa said it would guarantee jobs for 1,650 people at the two firms for the next 18 months and committed itself to increasing the capital of the two companies by another $25m within a year ; it plans to start manufacturing the Alcatel 1000 S-12 exchange in Poland , where it says it has already built eight digital exchanges in Poland with a $60m credit that was put up by the Spanish government . |
| 19 | A special committee was set up by the Supreme Council to register deserters in order to try to ensure their legal protection . |
| 20 | As these prices fluctuated , for example after the end of the Korean war boom , there was widespread unrest — often in resistance to well-meant price stabilisation funds set up by the colonial power — and out of this unrest arose movements which were to become nationalist parties and national liberation struggles . |
| 21 | He stressed that there are few serious collections of Indian miniatures in private hands in Britain ; notable among these are the artist Howard Hodgkin 's , and the collection built up by the late William Archer , also a former V&A Keeper , who carried out much of the early research in this field in the 1950s . |
| 22 | There is little doubt that the Serbs would want to retain most of what they now occupy , whereas the Croats would want to return to frontiers drawn up by the late Marshal Tito . |
| 23 | This precise and disheartening indictment was drawn up by the late Dr Enid Starkie , Reader Emeritus in French Literature at the University of Oxford , and Flaubert 's most exhaustive British biographer . |
| 24 | The photograph was found in an album made up by the late Sqn Ldr G Beeby . |
| 25 | A scheme set up by the Benevolent Fund gave him the chance to learn to fly . |
| 26 | Collective deliberation on the basis of choices served up by the official machine go against Mrs Thatcher 's personal grain . |
| 27 | Each of them must tread on and on , a ceaseless , bone-grinding trudge , if they did not want to be taken up and up by the gyrating treadmill into the clanking , turning cogs in the roof and ground to dust between the pinions . |
| 28 | It swiftly transpired that the document handed to the fathers for discussion was not that drawn up by the Preparatory Commission , but one revised by members of the Commission who were also members of the curia . |
| 29 | UK-based IXI Ltd has signed Danish Unix software house Super Users A/S , Copenhagen — headed up by the Scandinavian Unix guru Brian Eberhardt — to sell its X.desktop Motif software in Denmark . |
| 30 | Rocastle was the only player who was up by the halfway line when we broke away , all too frequently and any long punt by the defence fell to the feet of Blackburn players . |